Curated category
Social institutions
- MarriageThe word marriage appeared around 1300, borrowed from Old French and ultimately tracing to the Latin term for married. Anthropologists have proposed several…
- Civil unionOn the 7th of June 1989, Denmark passed a law creating the world's first civil union. This legislation came into effect on the 1st of October 1989 and…
- InstitutionAn institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior. This definition appears in the work of Alexander…